Classics 2902 - Test 1 Answered 100% correctly| 2026

Classics 2902 - Test 1 Answered 100% correctly| 2026 banausic prejudice Prejudice (and the looking down upon of) craftsmen, doctors, and all who had to work with their hands by elite members of Greek society miasma "stain, pollution" greeks saw this as divine blood is a good example (greeks saw it as a polluting stain) Demigourgoi "men who work for the people" (Craftsmen) eg. doctors Hippocrates "Father of medicine" - 5th c BCE (born around 460s, died around 375-351 BCE) - Was mentioned by Plato in 430s - Born island of Cos; later moved to Thessaly - Has Asclepiad family connection (relation to healing god) iatros physician "offer health advice and healing" No clear/definite definitions of the profession Empedocles of Acragas 490 to 430 BC; Remembered as the author of the four element theory of matter (earth, air, fire, and water). Democritus of Abdera 4 60 to 380 BCE formalized the earliest atomic theory Alemaeon of Croton (early fifth century BCE) seems to have made some of the earliest anatomical observations of the optic nerves and of the passages between the nasal and ear cavities